The United States spends far more than any other country on defense and security. Since 2001, the base defense budget has soared from $287 billion to $530 billion — and that’s before accounting for the primary costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Defense News reported this week (emphasis added), “Freshman GOP Sen. Tom Cotton says the United States must show it will start a war to prevent one, and suggests the country might need to spend nearly $900 billion annually on its military.”

$900 billion.

But guess what? For Cotton, not even this astronomical amount is necessarily enough. “No single amount can be pinpointed,” said Cotton.

In other words, almost a trillion would be nice–but we really shouldn’t put a cap on it.

What Cotton is calling for is, quite literally, unlimited government when it comes to Pentagon spending.

And as we saw with the Paul amendment, Cotton and his fellow hawks have no intention of cutting elsewhere in the budget to pay for this kind of spending.

If you believe America’s security and even greatness can be measured by the dollar amount we spend on our military, as many Republicans apparently do, Sen. Cotton is your man.